Kinda missed the whole point of Mondrian/De Stijl. Only primary colours (red, yellow, blue), and only horizontal and vertical elements (no curves or diagonals). This is kinda funny because Mondrian left De Stijl after they started allowing diagonal elements, which make up the stylised Momoka logo.
That's completely fine, but as someone with a fine art background I still find it in somewhat poor taste.
Now being that as it is, I am not wholly against finding inspiration, or even recontextualization of prior works. However this not exactly what I would consider applicable. To each their own, and your preferences are allowed to be different than mine, it just feels a tad kitschy.
I'm also at least somewhat at the mercy of art-loving family members who would, frankly speaking, bury me in my backyard if they saw that mat in my house.
EDIT: There's a restaurant where I live that has locally-sourced reinterpretations of van Gogh portraits. All well and good, though I've always found the one in a football jersey to be of exquisitely bad taste. Not poorly painted, exactly, just so ridiculously disrespectful to the legacy of the originals that I often wonder if the person who painted it (about 30 years ago) ever looks back on it and regrets their decision. Given the context, I doubt it, but I can surely hope. This is somewhat how this makes me feel. I realize this makes me come off as an up-my-own-ass, haughty, know-it-all art type, but I assure you I'm not. It's just hard to articulate this in a way that's not pretentious as hell, unfortunately.
postwarscarsI completely agree with you. The anime bit feels out of place, like it was slapped in for the sake of being anime.
If the mat was just the simple shapes and colors, I'd be much more interested in it.